This newsletter is written by one of our two students from the Australian Catholic University History Honours program. Both are undertaking their internship requirements with us while completing their history honours thesis.
This month Ella Birt writes about her thesis and two pieces using the work she's done with us to date to reflect on the meanings of places and communities in the context of history and heritage:
Beaconsfield Reservoir
Croydon Road and the touching story behind one of the names on its war memorial
Changes to the Victorian curriculum since the 1830s and what that tells us about society and politics
The tranquil qualities of this century-old reservoir conceals its vital relationship to the Nepean Peninsula, and the contemporary controversy bubbling up around it built partially on memory, intangible heritage and the importance of free-to-roam places in a local community.
